Coast Guard probes report of another missing person

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard is ur­gent­ly ver­i­fy­ing re­ports that an­oth­er per­son may be miss­ing fol­low­ing Sun­day’s boat­ing col­li­sion off Can­nings Point, Ch­aguara­mas.

In a state­ment on Wednes­day, the Coast Guard said it was aware of re­ports con­cern­ing an in­di­vid­ual who may be un­ac­count­ed for fol­low­ing the No­vem­ber 8 in­ci­dent.

The Coast Guard said its search and res­cue op­er­a­tion re­mained on­go­ing, with per­son­nel con­tin­u­ing to work along­side part­ner agen­cies.

It said any con­firmed change to the num­ber of peo­ple un­ac­count­ed for would be com­mu­ni­cat­ed once ver­i­fi­ca­tion was com­plete.

The pub­lic and me­dia were urged to ex­er­cise sen­si­tiv­i­ty to­wards the af­fect­ed fam­i­lies and re­frain from shar­ing un­ver­i­fied in­for­ma­tion.